Patriots say mascot wasn't actually hospitalized after tackle by New York Jets' Jamal Adams

AFC safety Jamal Adams #33 celebrates at the Pro Bowl Skills Challenge, Wednesday, January 23, 2019, in Kissimmee, FL. (AP Photo/Gregory Payan)

The New England Patriots’ mascot who was tackled Wednesday by New York Jets safety Jamal Adams did not go to the hospital, contrary to early reports, a spokesperson said Friday.

The tackle during the NFL Pro Bowl Skills Challenge was intended as a joke by Adams, who said in a statement to ESPN that he was playing on the “booing” of the fans.

“He [the mascot] was running around and everybody was booing him, so I said, ‘You know what? Let me go tackle him,’ Adams said in the statement. "I didn’t hit him that hard, man. All jokes aside, I didn’t hit him that hard.

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Adams said he was told that the man in the costume was taken to the hospital, but a statement from a New England Patriots spokesperson on Friday said that he was only checked on the field by a medic.

“He was not hospitalized,” read the statement, obtained by a Providence Journal reporter. “He did seek medical treatment from the on-site medic. It was a painful attack.”

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Adams said it was never his intention to hurt Pat the Patriot.

“C’mon! Don’t make nothing into something! Life’s too short!,” he wrote on Twitter.